TRT Update: Muscular hypertrophy
I appear to be putting some muscular size on. Arms and legs have definitely grown since beginning the protocol, so much so that I had to buy new knee sleeves. My large STrong sleeves and the large Harris sleeves (which straddle Large and XL sizes of STrong / SBD) wouldn't fit over my calves anymore, so I am now wearing 2XL SBD sleeves. I bought XL SBD sleeves and couldn't get them anywhere near my knees. I have the Harris sleeves as emergency backups and I sold my STrong sleeves on Ebay.
Weight is pretty stable, I am down 1.5kg and have just started tracking macros again (an eye opener), but any muscular gain has not been caused by really hard training - I haven't been near a 1RM on squat or deadlift for a long time due to working around this injury. I am chalking this up to having a normal hormonal environment, and hopefully some recomp is happening.
Otherwise there are no other effects. The initial libido surge has dropped a little which is a shame, but I spoke to the doctor and he said to keep an eye on it and report back, as we can swap some of the testosterone dose for Masteron to try and aid libido, as it is DHT based.
Also he said if I drop bodyfat (a definite goal) then my estrogen levels might drop, so we will have to monitor that as it can have pretty bad side effects. The good thing about exogenous testosterone is that I know if I train, keep my injections regular & protein intake correct at 250g, muscle loss is pretty much not going to happen. Any scale changes will be fat and water.
Hindsight is a pretty powerful thing, I remember trying to get "shredded" at 90kg. I had barely any muscle, and even now 30kg later I need to add a lot more.
